Abstract: Recent evidence shows that Google is increasingly the primary information discovery tool for the general public and more specialized audiences such as students, researchers, and educators. In this "age of google" it is critical that digital libraries offer more than a simple "find it and access it" paradigm. The relevance of projects like the NSDL must be evaluated in this context. This talk will describe work within the NSDL on an information network overlay architecture, which is a framework for contextualizing, interrelating, and reusing information. We argue that such contextualization is critical for the utility of digital libraries for education and a variety of other purposes.